HOUSTON-Dirt should be flying in two weeks on a 40,000-sf build-to-suit for Ribelin Sales Inc., a Dallas-based distributor for the commercial paint industry. Developer GSL Contractors is undertaking the project in Aberdeen Business Park.

CENTREVILLE, VA-After decades in Tysons Corner, Sparta plans to move westward, in part because of the company's difficulties finding skilled workers willing to battle the area's growing traffic.

SACRAMENTO, CA-The apartment developer will build the units between 2002 and 2007. It already owns 1,000 units in the area. The first project will consist of 449 units in North Natomas.

HARRISON, NY-Connecticut State Senate Majority Leader George Jepsen, speaking at a commercial real estate breakfast on Thursday, said that any proposal to bring Native American gaming to the city of Bridgeport must be defeated.